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Free the mind, the lyric will follow.Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:21:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9By: johnhttp://www.songlyrics.com/news/album-reviews/album-review-regina-spektor-what-we-saw-from-the-cheap-seats/#comment-461
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:09:00 +0000http://www.songlyrics.com/news/?post_type=albumreviews&p=14997#comment-461“The problem, however, is that “All the Rowboats” isn’t the kind of song that can be made into an album. Spektor has sung herself into a corner, trapped herself in a sound in a way that Waits, Byrne, and Longstreth have all very consciously avoided. She does what she does well–but it’s not a sound I find myself craving for long periods of time. Spektor is not the cartoon her detractors paint her as–but her purposeful cartoonish qualities are both her benefit and her disadvantage.”

one song can’t “be made into an album”? what is that suppose to mean? no music artist should publish a song that cannot “be made into an album”? what do you want her to do, make mixes of one song and put them all on an album? think she’ll exploit her fans that way so many other musicians do?

just what “corner” has regina “sung herself into”? why dont you explore these conclusions in the body of your critique? your conclusions are thusly unsupported even if accurate (which i disagree). as to being in a “corner” by style, what makes her now having composed this one song, “All the Rowboats” incapable of changing her style? it seems you are saying that then all the songs in this album therefore, “Spektor has sung herself into a corner” are in this corner. i don’t think so

and just what sound do you find yourself craving for long periods of time? the only sound(s) i crave listing for long periods of time are genres, never particular songs or even particular artists, although i have my favorites

what qualities of regina’s music are cartoonish? again, you only conclude this particular observation in the summary paragraph of your critique. where is the support of this conclusion in the body of your album review?

i don’t know what you mean by cartoonish, perhaps you mean the inflection in her voice at certain places. if so, quite the opposite. regina’s skill is utterly brilliant here. her vocals match the music style. and most importantly, she uses vocal inflection to communicate meaning and to emphasize that meaning, and quite uniquely at that